letter (copy), letter
Accession Number

NAM.2001-07-703-5-2

Description

Typescript transcript of a letter from the parents of Pte Skett, Coldstream Guards, requesting to be put in contact with the soldier who witnessed his death; typescript transcript of the reply from Capt E Christie-Miller, Coldstream Guards, describing Pte Skett’s death on a working party at Latchen on the Russian Front. From a file of papers described as ‘Further Evidence’. One of eight files consisting mostly of sworn statements, sent to the Government Committee on the Treatment by the Germans of British Prisoners of War, by courts of enquiry held at The Hague, Holland, Mar-June 1918.

Campaigns

World War One, Eastern Front (1914-1918), World War One, POWs (1914-1918)

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